The nuclear fusion rocket that could take humans to Mars faster | BBC News

we aint going to Mars, if the radiation dont kill you the martian soil will

I don't know, I'm going to need more than a blinking blue light before I get excited

3:23 The autogenerated subtitles call the system "SunBum", which i think is faaar superior name :D

They should build The Tipler Cylinder one day.

It's a sad day when I hear a BBC narrator say "nu-cu-lear"

I noticed a "To Let" sign at the entrance of the warehouse in the video. Is this a real company, or is it just using the space for sponsorship or filming?

i hope this tech will make oil obsolete .

Kerr Starmer produces enough wind and hot air to send most rockets to the moon 😂

The reactor/engine has to achieve a temperature of 300 million degrees C for fusion to start working. So yeah, good luck finding a power source for such a thing on a spaceship.

I worked at Culham Science Centre on the initial development of JET (Joint European Tokamak), the EU nuclear fusion reactor prototype around 1977, and we were predicting getting nuclear fusion reactors on the national grid by 2000. But every 10 years further on, the date has gone back another 15 or 20 years, so when someone suggests 2040 I must say I'm a bit sceptical. It will happen one day, but there's still lots to overcome, lots to learn yet. But landing on Mars? You'd need to take off with the fuel to power through the earth's atmosphere, the deuterium & triteum for the inter-planatery nuclear fusion phase and the the fuel to get down through the martian atmosphere to the surface. I'm not sure the maths works on that, but we'll see. However, the human race would be better served by getting small huclear fusion power plants working on earth as a step towards decarbonisation of energy production, before worrying about space. What's the good of space exploration if there's nobody left alive on earth to see the stars?

This is very sus, where is the fusion and what is the proposed fuel that you can obtain while in space? Their website says "Self-sustaining fuel supply" but if something's being ejected from the thrust nozzle then you're gonna need to replace that something!

Finally nuclear i have been barking for so long use nuclear to fly not kill

We invent, then a venture capitalist from the states would acquire. Then it becomes an American company.

Nuclear as in nuke-le-ar.

There's 5 minutes I'll never get back. Hint, generating plasma is not fusion.

Nucular? I think it’s nuclear

All the rocket scientists in the comment section.😂😂

I'm sorry, am I missing something here? Headline and intro are saying 'nuclear fusion rocket', which would be sensational. But then we're shown something similar to already existing ion-propulsion, and we see plasma demonstrated. Plasma and nuclear fusion aren't the same.

Fun fact: you can make plasma at home. Cut a grape in half and heat it in your microwave. This will create a brief flare of plasma.

Just another 20 years! Always another 20 years...